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PyData London News Apr 2025¶

95th Meetup, hosted by Man Group¶

@PyDataLondon¶

PyData Code of Conduct¶

https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct/¶

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NumFOCUS¶

  • US-based charity in support of open-source scientific computing
  • Financial and admin support for many open-source projects
  • Support for many community events
  • https://numfocus.org
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PyData¶

  • Educational program by NumFOCUS
  • A global community
  • 235 groups across 80 countries world-wide
  • 239,000+ users world-wide (+23,000 per year!)
  • https://www.meetup.com/pro/pydata/
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PyData London¶

  • 14,500+ members running a monthly meetup and annual conference
  • All run by volunteers
  • Propose a Talk: https://london.pydata.org/submit-a-talk/
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Man Group¶

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  1. The world's largest publicly traded hedge fund company
  2. Lots of open positions in both tech and research!
  3. Sponsors PyData London ❤️❤️❤️

Upcoming Conferences¶

Courtesy of https://pythondeadlin.es/¶

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Save the date: June 6-8, PyData London 2025! 🎉¶

Tutorials: Friday, June 6. Talks: Saturday-Sunday, June 7-8¶

Location: Convene Sancroft, St. Paul's¶

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Tonight's Schedule¶

18:30 Doors open¶

19:00 Talks start ⬅️ YOU ARE HERE¶

19:15 Main Talk + Q&A -> John Sandall¶

19:45 📣 Community Announcements 📣¶

19:50 Break 🥂¶

20:05 ⚡ Main Talk⚡ #1 + Q&A -> Janu Verma¶

20:45 ⚡ Lightning Talk⚡ #2 + Q&A -> ALex Caian¶

20:50 ⚡ Lightning Talk⚡ #3 + Q&A -> Amaboh(Ama) Achu¶

20:55 to 21:00 We're done 🔜 The Banker 🍻¶

Main Talk: Deploying AI-driven Optimal Control Systems in Factories. - Serge Kozlov¶

Abstract: At Conundrum, we specialise in developing AI-driven solutions that manage factory equipment in real-time. With over nine successful deployments, our technology has demonstrated economic effects over £130M. As the Head of Product, I am responsible for the platform that enables the design time and run time of these solutions. In my talk, I will discuss the infrastructure needed to create, deploy, and support these advanced technological solutions in the metals and mining industry.

1️⃣⚡ Visualising LLM embeddings with T-SNE (Flask, Three.js, MongoDB) - Victor Zommers¶

2️⃣⚡ Behind the scenes - controlling Github from Python - Tambe Tabitha Achere¶

3️⃣⚡ LangGraph: or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the tool - Kevin Vegda¶

🕊️ Tweet #pydatalondon and @pydatalondon 🦆¶